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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – February 2024
- Saturday, 02 March 2024 15:38
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Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
At the February 2024 Just Desserts meeting, 10 attending group members and guests participated in a discussion of suspense novel The Only One Left by Riley Sager.
Following the “assigned reading” portion of the meeting, we held our monthly round robin in which attendees shared recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, with an emphasis on mysteries/suspense/thrillers. We continued a new policy this month that began in 2023, to make sure everyone got a turn in the Round Robin – everyone could share a single title during their verbal recommendations (actually we allowed two this month), but could then share additional titles on a paper form – ALL titles recommended are shown below. The titles marked by an * are those specifically mentioned verbally during the Round Robin. Two members who weren’t able to attend sent in their “recent reads” by e-mail, to be included in this list.
Here’s the list of mystery, thriller and suspense books recommended by Just Desserts members in February 2024:
- Nothing to Lose * by Lee Child – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Margaret Truman’s Murder on the Metro * by Jon Land
- The Twist of a Knife * by Anthony Horowitz – past author selection for Just Desserts
- 23 ½ Lies: Thrillers * by James Patterson – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Sun Down Motel * by Simone St. James
- Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone * by Benjamin Stevenson
- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
- Various in the Vampire Knitting Club series * by Nancy Warren (several readers)
- Various in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series * by Anne Perry – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Patient in Room 18 * by Mignon G. Eberhart – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Everyone on This Train is a Suspect * by Benjamin Stevenson (two readers)
- Cadillac Jukebox by James Lee Burke – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Bloodroot by Susan Wittig Albert – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Sting of Justice by Cora Harrison
- Paws Before Dying and A New Leash on Death by Susan Conant
- A Clue for the Puzzle Lady and The Sudoku Puzzle Murders by Parnell Hall
- Flock Together by B.J. Hollars
- Bloodline, The Quarry Girls and Litari all by Jess Lourey
- Dumb Witness, Death on the Nile and Murder in the Mews (all Hercule Poirot novels as audiobooks) by Agatha Christie – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Rumpole mysteries by John Mortimer (as opposed to the Rumpole TV series)
And here were some non-mystery titles some group members also recommended in February 2024:
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? * by Horace McCoy
- Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims * by Jennifer Vanderbes
- Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
- Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
- Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
- Juniper’s Christmas by Eoin Colfer
- The Address by Fiona Davis
- West With Giraffes * by Lynda Rutledge
- The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
- Fourteen Days: A Literary Project by the Authors Guild of America * including works by 36 authors
- The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- The Violin Conspiracy * by Brendan Slocumb
- One Summer: America, 1927 * by Bill Bryson
- The Invisible Man by H.G Wells
- System Collapse by Martha Wells
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?